Hui Lin

Impact of slope, aspect and cloud cover on the distribution of incoming global solar radiation over Pakistan

2015

We use a distributed modeling approach to investigate the spatial and quantitative distribution of incoming global solar radiation (GSR) falling over the complex terrain using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information system (GIS). To apply …

On the Use of BERT for Automated Essay Scoring: Joint Learning of Multi-Scale Essay Representation

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In recent years, pre-trained models have become dominant in most natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, in the area of Automated Essay Scoring (AES), pre-trained models such as BERT have not been properly used to …

Cross-Silo Prototypical Calibration for Federated Learning with Non-IID Data

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Federated Learning aims to learn a global model on the server side that generalizes to all clients in a privacy-preserving manner, by leveraging the local models from different clients. Existing solutions focus on either regularizing …

New Cryptographic Bent Functions from Permutations and Linear Translator in Cyber Security

2023

Cryptographic bent functions are maximally nonlinear Boolean functions with an even number of variables. They are not only closely related to some interesting combinatorial objects, but also have important applications in coding, sequence design, cryptography …

IHFBF: A High-Performance Blockchain Framework for Improving Hyperledger Fabric Permissioned Chain

2023

Permissioned blockchain frameworks typically employ efficient Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols, making them appealing for the deployment of fast transaction applications among a large number of mutually distrustful participants. However, existing permissioned blockchain frameworks typically use …

SemantiChain: A Trust Retrieval Blockchain Based on Semantic Sharding

2024 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Since its inception, blockchain technology has found wide-ranging applications in various fields including agriculture, energy, and so on, owing to its immutable and decentralized nature. However, existing blockchains encounter significant challenges in scenarios that demand …

MSKE-LLM: Multi-Stage Knowledge Enhancement Policy Question-Answering Large Language Model

2025

We present MSKE-LLM, a Multi-Stage Knowledge Enhancement (MSKE) policy question-answering Large Language Model (LLM). Its goal is to use structured policy knowledge graphs to enhance knowledge base retrieval ability, thereby improving the knowledge matching accuracy …